Small-Scale Features of Interplanetary Shocks

Details Small-Scale Features of Interplanetary Shocks Small-Scale Features of Interplanetary Shocks

Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufmsh43c..07n&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #SH43C-07

Physics

2109 Discontinuities (7811), 2114 Energetic Particles (7514), 2134 Interplanetary Magnetic Fields, 2139 Interplanetary Shocks

Scientific paper

One usually envisions interplanetary shocks as relatively smooth large-scale bubbles moving out from the Sun. The recent availability of simultaneous observations of such shocks by many spacecraft has allowed us to study whether the shock surfaces are smooth or bumpy and whether or not energetic particles are accelerated equally on all parts of a shock. We find that both the radii of curvature of ripples on shock fronts and the distance over which energetic particle features persist are roughly two to three million km, which is also the correlation scale length of the interplanetary magnetic field.

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